"Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true."

-- Cathy O'Neil

#Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes #People Quotes

“Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.”
“Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.”
“I create the world that I live in...”
“Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"”
“It is all here. You make the choice.”

Source : "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 1997.
“Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.”
“It's hard to kill that father-son bond.”
“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”

Source : "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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